1 Kings 21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
KJV
Scripsit itaque litteras ex nomine Achab, et signavit eas annulo ejus, et misit ad majores natu, et optimates, qui erant in civitate ejus, et habitabant cum Naboth.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαός Μὴ ἀκούσῃς καὶ μὴ θελήσῃς.
LXX
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.
ASV
וַ/תִּכְתֹּ֤ב סְפָרִים֙ בְּ/שֵׁ֣ם אַחְאָ֔ב וַ/תַּחְתֹּ֖ם בְּ/חֹתָמ֑/וֹ וַ/תִּשְׁלַ֣ח ה/ספרים סְפָרִ֗ים אֶל הַ/זְקֵנִ֤ים וְ/אֶל הַֽ/חֹרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/עִיר֔/וֹ הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֖ים אֶת נָבֽוֹת
Hebrew
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15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1295By this anointing the confirmand receives the "mark," the seal of the Holy Spirit. A seal is a symbol of a person, a sign of personal authority, or ownership of an object.105 Hence soldiers were marked with their leader's seal and slaves with their master's. A seal authenticates a juridical act or document and occasionally makes it secret.106
§2538The tenth commandment requires that envy be banished from the human heart. When the prophet Nathan wanted to spur King David to repentance, he told him the story about the poor man who had only one ewe lamb that he treated like his own daughter and the rich man who, despite the great number of his flocks, envied the poor man and ended by stealing his lamb.322 Envy can lead to t…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 9:22 — And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
- 2Sam 11:14 — And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- Esth 3:12 — Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that wer
- Esth 8:8 — Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man rev
- Ruth 4:2 — And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.